Bayshore residents should be entitled to real help against government intrusion

PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Publication

JUNE 17, 2008

Bayshore residents should be entitled to real help against government intrusion

Middletown Township (Monmouth County, NJ): Middletown residents, along with Bayshore area residents, are entitled to substantial help from the Federal Government that is foisting what amounts to a new tax on them where it involves the re-issuance of Federal Emergency Management Agency flood maps, according to Middletown Democrats for Township Committee Jim Grenafege and Patricia Walsh.

According to Grenafege, the Middletown Township Committee should be lobbying for tax credits to Middletown and area taxpayers impacted by the proposed FEMA flood maps, seek rebates for flood insurance ratepayers that are not impacted by future flooding in the Bayshore and seek a partnership or understanding with mortgage and primary lien holders in the area that they assist in premium payments with respective taxpayers.

“It’s time for Middletown’s elected officials to partner with residents in resolving this very important issue to their favor,” Grenafege said.

“Mortgage companies are the ones benefiting by these soon to be imposed flood maps and should be part of the answers for taxpayers,” Walsh said. “These insurance issues should not be taken out on taxpayers that are struggling with a failing economy, skyrocketing gas prices and a State and Federal Government that has been nothing but adversarial to business interests in this state.”

The candidates said that the existing Middletown Committee majority has done little about the FEMA flood map issue other than point fingers at political targets and rail for the sake of political advancement.

“This is not the way I would do government, because it isn’t a way that works,” Grenafege said.

Walsh concluded, “It is time for something new in Middletown; something that works instead of just perpetuates a cycle of inefficiency in this community’s Town Hall.”

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